Like many, when I’m abroad I use the hotel wi-fi (if there is no charge); I buy a local SIM card; or I don’t bother and just roam with my home network. But during my last trip I spent three weeks in Greece using Mi-Fi and a SIM card from Cellhire and I am now […]

I still remember the impact some books had on me in my youth and Crime and Punishment was one of them. Ever since I read it, I’ve wanted to travel to its locations in St Petersburg. Now that this day approaches at last, I bought it again to re-read it. It is because I remembered […]

Generally as a tourist you’d probably tend to avoid travelling to a country during an election period, but as a traveller who goes on three-week plus trips, sometimes, you can’t avoid them. I’ve been in four elections in four different countries. In 1997, I witnessed a phenomenon rarer than El Niño: Chilean Parliamentary elections – only […]